Quotes by : Mike Jay

Haslam leaves us in no doubt what we are supposed to make of Matthews' mental world: this is gibberish....

Come the revolution, however, mesmerism was reconceived once more. From its beginnings many had seen....

Many had suspected that the political disasters of the past few years had a hidden cause. The bloodiness....

As a pauper, the obvious destination for James Tilly Matthews was the Bethlem Hospital, already long....

It was Matthews, of course, for whom the verdict was the greatest disaster. Not only had he failed to....

The French revolution, he concluded, had not produced any new principles of truths, merely a mass of....

But, mad or sane, Matthews was a man of no ordinary persistence. He was not prepared to renounce the....

James Tilly Matthews was not a prophet. He was a gifted, perhaps fragile individual who suffered intensely,....

We think of 1789 as the date of the French Revolution, and the storming of the Bastille as its defining....

If history is written by the victors, conspiracy theory is typically written by the losers, and there....